Congress, BJD conspire to keep people poor, says Modi in Odisha

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the Congress and the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha have hatched a conspiracy to keep the people poor for their vote bank politics. "Parties like Congress and BJD conspired to keep the poor of the country poor. They deceived the poor. They treated them as vote bank," said Modi while addressing an election rally at Bhawanipatna in Kalahandi district. Modi said Odisha is going to repeat the history created by Uttar Pradesh in 2017 and Tripura in 2018 as he urged the people to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to achieve 'double engine' growth at the Centre and at the state.